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Michele Shelburne President |
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Michele started with LADATCO in September 1969 in sales and worked her way through sales to Supervisor, Manager, Office Manager and Vice President to President.
An accomplished destination speaker, Michele has given educational destination presentations to more than ten thousand travel agents in the USA, Australia and New Zealand in such exotic sites as the Poodle Room at the Fontainbleau Hilton Miami Beach, the Ballroom at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, on the M/V Santa Cruz cruising the Galapagos Islands, while transiting the Panama Canal, in two mile high Quito, Ecuador and most recently at the Ariau Treetop Jungle Hotel near Manaus, Brasil, deep in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest.
She was the first woman and only the third recipient of the Oscar Lobo Award, presented by SATA in recognition of dedication to promoting South and Central America.
She was selected in 1997, 1998, and 1999 by Travel Agent Magazine for inclusion in the 200 Most Powerful Women in Travel issue, and in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 for inclusion in "The Most Powerful Women in Travel".
Michele has traveled throughout the Central and South America and to the Falkland Islands. In her own words: "The more remote, the more pristine, the more I love it."
Some of her more recent travels include:
April 2008: Peru for the new M/V AQUA Amazon cruise and the new Orient Express property in Colca Canyon, Las Casitas del Colca
May 2008: Chile, for the new luxury The Cliffs Preserve and Quincho Country Home near Puerto Montt the new Explora Lodge "Mike Rapu" on Easter Island
May 2007: Quito to update destination knowledge
June 2006: Argentina's wetlands Estero del Ibera and the Rincon del Socorro Lodge
May 2006: Argentine's wine cuntry and the fabulous Cavas Wione Lodge; the scenic northwest including Salta and Robert Duvall's House of Jasmine
April 2006: Iguassu Falls - both Brasilian and Argentine side, and Yacutinga Lodge in Argentina
March 2006: Argentine Patagonia, including Bariloche and the Estancia Peuma Hue; El Calafate - Eolo, Estancia Cristina; El Chalten - Los Cerros; Ushuaia -Tren del Fin del Mundo.
May 2005: Peru, including Arequipa and the Colca Canyon, second deepest on earth, and the luxury rail trip aboard the Hiram Bingham
March 2004: Skorpios III Southern Patagonia Ice Fields Cruise
July 2002: Patagonia in the dead of winter! Surprizingly delightful stay at Explora en Patagonia during the middle of winter only to discover breautifully calm, clear days of moderately cold weather!
March-April 2002: ten days exploring the Lake District of Chile and Argentina, including the northern Lake District of Argentina from Bariloche via Villa La Angustura to San Martin de los Andes via the scenic Siete Lagos road
January 2002: a week in Ecuador including 4 nights exploring upscale haciendas and spas and 3 nights in Cuenca attending the B.I.T.E. tourism congress where she did a presentation "El Mercado: The Marketplace".
September 2000: 6 days visiting historical Recife and Olinda, Brasil, and Fernando do Noronha island off the coast of Brasil, a national marine park and one of the top dive sites in the world
August 2000: 14 days in the northern part of Peru visiting Huaraz and Huascaran National Park and nearby Chavin de Huantar, Trujillo and Chiclayo with Sipan and other related archaeological sites, with a visit to Kuelap, Fortress in the Clouds
April 1999: 18 days traveling more than 2000 kilometers along the Carretera Austral in Chile and Ruta 40 in Argentina visiting National Parks and remote estancias along the way
August 1998: 19 days in the Andes around Cuzco, and over the Andes to both Manu and Tambopata-Candamo Reserves
March 1998: one week in the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
Michele's duties at LADATCO focus on day-to-day sales for FITs and groups as well as program and destination development, web site design, construction and maintenance.
Through the years Michele has been taking her friends to various parts of Latin America. These group trips of "friends only" has been christened "Amigo Michele" by LADATCO's operators and have ranged in size from a small group of 6 to a group of 26. To date Amigo Michele groups have done Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Ecuador, Peru-Bolivia, Brasil and Argentine-Chilean Patagonia and spent the Millennium at Machu Picchu. Amigo Michele has also done Bostwana and South Africa, and China.
